Have the students write by hand in class in response to a question they don't have beforehand, but which should be relatively predictable based on the material. That's my plan for next year. Anyone with an accommodation will get the regular extra time and a quiet room. Welcome back to 1979 kids.

I think the longest-lasting computer that I used on a daily basis as my main device was a Lenovo ThinkPad R500. I bought it in 2010 and used it until 2019. It still worked when I retired it, but it was getting a bit slow. A ThinkPad X120e is now a server (a Syncthing hub). It's been going since 2011.

I use Windows at work. Classic shell is still working well on Win10 for me and I doubt I'll be upgrading unless it's forced. On the positive side, there's a discount for those of us who bought Start8 back in the day.

The Canadian system is funded by employees and employers. It's close to 50-50. You should be able to see your employers' contribution on your paystub.

Nice! I'll be sure to look for it.

Kuro5hin is dead. Back in the day, you were the reason I went there. You posted some great stuff there -- Bukowski-esque.

After years of using Slackware, I installed Crunchbang on a netbook about 4 or 5 years ago. The decision was made because Crunchbang worked with the hardware, but I really enjoyed using it, and the community was/is great. Then the developer killed the XFCE version, which was far more usable than the OpenBox variant. At that point, I decided never to go with a one-man show again, and installed a minimal version of Debian. Given the size of the Debian development team, you don't have to worry about a single developer calling it quits and ending the project. In addition, as the Crunchbang dev noted, there's nothing in Crunchbang that you can't get from Debian.

....are when the email server is down.

I would say that the study may add new evidence in support of long existing theory. The three wave theory, precisely in the format described in the write up here on slashdot, has been in first year university history textbooks for at least a decade, if not longer.

Here's a link to the emulator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualt/

I was just thinking that the first one I ever saw (in real life, not in the radio shack catalog) belonged to a roommate who was a radio reporter. It was 1990, and there really was nothing that quite matched it even then. I was totally jealous. I couldn't find one and ended up buying a smith corona pwp-something or other... which you could haul around .... but it was bigger than briefcase size and single-purpose.